Digital reporter Michelle Blade with today's top north west news headlines and weather
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00:00 Hello, I'm Michelle from the Lancaster Guardian with all your latest news from across the
00:04 region. A Heysham residential home has been placed
00:10 into special measures after inspectors found two areas of its care to be inadequate. Fern
00:16 Cross residential home in Crossdale Avenue was inspected by the Care Quality Commission
00:22 (CQC) in December. Lancashire Police are hunting a gunman after
00:28 a shooting in Skirmersdale near Peel Road Business Park.
00:33 A manhunt for the gunman is underway this morning, say Lancashire Police. A man was
00:37 taken to hospital after the shooting last night.
00:42 A Bispin funeral director has appeared in court charged with sexual assault.
00:47 David Potts, a funeral director at Leighton Funeral Directors, was charged with two counts
00:52 of sexual assault against a man. The 56-year-old of Devonshire Road, Bispin,
00:59 pleaded not guilty when he appeared at Blackburn Magistrates on Tuesday. He is next due to
01:05 appear at Preston Crown Court on 3 October. Police arrested a 29-year-old man on suspicion
01:12 of rape in Burnley. Over the weekend and on Wednesday, the police asked for the public's
01:18 help identifying the man they wanted to speak to in connection with the rape of a 17-year-old
01:23 girl. Two new Asda convenience stores will be opening
01:28 in Wigan at the end of the month. They are in Ormskirk Road, Pemberton and at Almondbrook
01:34 Road in Standish and are due to open on February 28.
01:39 The supermarket giant is massively expanding its network of Asda Express convenience stores
01:45 with a total of 470 opening nationally before the end of March.
01:51 As for the weather, over the weekend, on Saturday there are some brighter spells to start the
01:56 weekend though showers at times too. Sunday to Tuesday will be a mixture of some brighter
02:02 and drier intervals with the risk of showers or longer spells of rain.
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